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Anne Finlay

1898 – 1963

Scottish painter

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Lived 1898 – 1963 (aged 64–65). Anne Finlay was a British painter.

Anne Finlay (1898–1963) was a Scottish artist.

Education and artistic career Finlay spent her early years in Edinburgh and attended school in Manor Place in the city, where she studied French. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1917 to 1920. She studied drawing and painting but did not obtain her diploma.

Finlay regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1932 onwards, the Royal Scottish Academy and as part of the Society of Women Artists between 1934 and 1956. She was part of the circle of friends who comprised the artists community in Edinburgh at the time. The group included Dorothy Johnstone, Cecile Walton, Eric Robertson, David Macbeth Sutherland and Adam Bruce Thomson. A portrait of Finlay by her friend and fellow artist Johnstone featured in the posters and promotional materials associated with the Modern Scottish Women Exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2015–16. The portrait is owned by Aberdeen Art Gallery She was described as attractive and vivacious, with a 'certain disregard for propriety'

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Born
1898, Edinburgh
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Died
1963, Richmond
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Who was Anne Finlay?

Scottish painter (1898–1963)

When was Anne Finlay born?

Anne Finlay was born in 1898 in Edinburgh.

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Anne Finlay died in 1963 in Richmond.

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Anne Finlay was a painter.

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Anne Finlay was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Anne Finlay

· Wikidata: Q21457351

· DBpedia: Anne Finlay

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